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" ... themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report; when perhaps they... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ... - Page 32
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...are happy, as it were by report, when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs ; though they be the last that find their own faults. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them),...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ...

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...happy, as it were, by report; when, perhaps, they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last...incubat, Qui, notus nimis omnibus, Ignotus moritur sibi.5 1 Cum non sis, &c.] Cicero, Epist. Fam. That when you are not what you have been, there is no...
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Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...are the first that find their own griefs,' 6 though they be the last that find their own faults.' 7 Certainly, men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the pusle '8 of business, they have no time to tend their health, either of body or mind: "Illi mors gravis...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within ; for they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last...to tend their health either of body or mind. Illi mars gravis incubat, qui notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.2 In place there is' license to...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...happy, as it were, by report, when perhaps they find the contrary within : for they are the first who find their own griefs, though they be the last that...time to tend their health either of body or mind. LORD BACON : Essay XI., Of Gre.it Place. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...when, perhaps, they find Essay n] İf ffireat ^lace 35 the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last that find their 25 own faults. Certainly, men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...are happy as it were by report, when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs ; though they be the last...omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi." In place there is licence to do good and evil ; whereof the latter is a curse ; for in evil the best condition is not...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious works

Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...are happy as it were by report; when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last...tend their health either of body or mind. Illi mors gratis incubat, qid notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi: [It is a sad fate for a man to die too...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...though thereby they offer age to scorn. haps, they find the contrary within; for they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last...strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle 12 of business they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind. ' //// mors gravis incubat,...
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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 pages
...are happy as it were by report, when perhaps they find the contrary within ; for they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and whilo they are in the puzzle of business, they have no timo to tend their own health, either of body...
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